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Leadership and management · Designated and deputy safeguarding leads, registered managers

The designated safeguarding lead role

What changes when the concern lands on your desk instead of being passed up from it.

  • 2modules
  • 3.0CPD hours
  • 85guided minutes
  • Freealways

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About this course

Reporting a concern and receiving one are different skills. As a lead you decide thresholds, you hold information other people cannot, you manage an allegation against a member of your own staff, and you carry the concern that turns out to be nothing and the one that does not.

This course covers the decision, the duty to refer, allegations against staff and the LADO route, information sharing, and the record that has to stand up months later.

What you will be able to do

  • Apply a threshold decision and record the reasoning behind it
  • Manage an allegation against a member of staff, including the LADO route
  • Share information lawfully without consent where the test is met
  • Write a safeguarding record that stands up months later

Modules

  1. 1 Receiving a concern, and deciding what to do with it 45 min study · 4 min script · 4 question knowledge check
  2. 2 After the referral: enquiries, reviews and learning 40 min study · 4 min script · 4 question knowledge check

Assessment and certificate

A knowledge check and a final assessment at 80 per cent, unlimited attempts.

A free digital certificate with a verification code and 2 CPD hours.

Questions

What is a LADO?

The Local Authority Designated Officer, who oversees allegations against people who work with children. For adults, the equivalent route is the local authority's adult safeguarding team, and many areas have a specific person management or allegations process. Know which applies in your area before you need it.

Do I need consent to make a safeguarding referral?

Not always. Consent should normally be sought, but you may share without it where there is a risk of serious harm to the person or to others, where a child is at risk, where there is a legal obligation, or in defined public interest circumstances. Record the reasoning either way.